I hear a lot of people talk about how great the Pentax system is because of all the cheap older primes you can get, but I'm not finding any except for the ones that are fully manual (no TTL or autofocus). Surely I'm missing something, yet I've looked numerous times, and can't find them. Am I looking for the wrong thing? It seems like its not just Pentax that has cheap manual primes, as Minolta and Nikon do also (and Canon, but I don't think theirs fit).

I would like a 50mm and something around 80-100mm.

I know some may find my posts annoying (I do post a lot of questions about specific cameras). If that's the case I apologize, but luckily there are other threads to post in!

Most should meter just fine, but you wont find any M42 auto focus, You can get an adapter that has AF confirmation, so as you manually focus your focus point will flash and beep when correct focus is achieved.

Thanks. I'm getting that the coolness comes from getting cool MANUAL lenses. That's what I was missing. I was seeing the price of the autofocus lenses and I wasn't exactly getting what people like Drewski were talking about.

Thanks for clarifying!

BTW, Battou, that's a beautiful camera. I love the old stainless steel-looking cameras. You can argue old vs. new, but they sure don't look like they used to, there's no comparison on that!

I guess it would be easier to buy manual K-mount lenses (not M42 lenses) so you don't need an adaptor. I believe that the focus confirmation will work with all those lenses on Pentax dSLR's. The shooting modes are restricted depending on the lenses you use (KA or KM). It should all be explained in the camera manuals.